Nikolić: We will not cooperate with the majority until the laws on the National Security Agency and internal affairs are withdrawn

The head of the parliamentary group of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), Andrija Nikolić, announced today that the opposition party will no longer cooperate with the parliamentary majority, and will not vote for the Government's proposals until the laws on the National Security Agency (ANB) and internal affairs are withdrawn.

He made this announcement at a session of the European Union (EU)-Montenegro Stabilization and Association Parliamentary Committee (SAP) in Strasbourg.

Nikolić said that the EU has the same responsibility for Montenegro's integration process as the Montenegrin government, and that it is important that the EU does not allow the government "to manipulate the EU integration process and adopt Stalinist laws under the guise of integration in order to more easily deal with political rivals."

"... We have a government in which we receive a message from the Ministry of European Affairs that they do not need the opposition. We were very constructive, sometimes contrary to party interests, we supported all the laws from the EU agenda, signed the agreement on the census. However, our constructiveness was abused... We will not boycott the parliament so as not to jeopardize the political legitimacy of the negotiation process, but we will no longer cooperate with the authorities and we will not vote for the government's proposals until they withdraw the laws on the ANB and internal affairs," Nikolić said.